Oh dear, tragic and beautiful. It is something how that "ugly" is a felt sense. I know it is a tongue in cheek saying but "beauty is only skin deep but ugly is to the bone" kind of describes the situation well, no?There is eloquence in your words tempered with the soft brutality of sadness.Your poetry is often difficult for me to read as it is a bony finger that touches an old cold spot in my heart and mind, a spot that often times has sucked the warmth from my blood...